Results for "South Carolina"
- Webpage
All-American Compromise
- Date: February 16, 2017
- Description: Laying the Foundations: Early Schools of ThoughtWith few national institutions on which to model their thinking, many Americans built their plans for the Smithsonian around the notion of a national university.The debate moved quickly from, Should we create a national university? This page describes the 1838-1846 debates about what form the Smithsonian Institution should take.
- Blog Post
Looking Smithson’s Gift Horse in the Mouth
- Date: July 28, 2015
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: Today, James Smithson’s bequest to found the Smithsonian is considered a wonderful event, but in 1835 when it was announced, many Americans responded negatively. Why did they look his gift horse in the mouth?
- Field Book
Field catalogs : Buleigh, T D, 701-5500
- Date: 1930-1939 19300103 19390109
- Creator: Burleigh, Thomas Dearborn 1895-
- Field Book
Field catalog : Buleigh, T D, 5501-10704
- Date: 1939-1947 19390109 19471024
- Creator: Burleigh, Thomas Dearborn 1895-
- SI History Chronology
Libraries Seized During War Held at SI
- Date: January 26-29, 1863
All Shook Up: A History of Earthquakes at the Smithsonian
- Date: September 21, 2011
- Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
- Description: Here at the Smithsonian we love to observe. So of course on August 23, 2011, at 1:51 PM, when a 5.8 magnitude earthquake shook the Washington, DC region and many of us with it, we immediately started to observe what happened and how we could document it. As the Institution's historians, inevitably we needed to know, had this happened before and what were the effects? After
- Authority Record/EAC
Perrygo, Watson M., 1906-1984
- Date: 1906 1984
- Collection
J. Frank Joyner Field Notes, 1937
- Date: 1937
- Creator: Joyner, J. Frank
- Field Book
Fish Hawk, 8248 to 8298
- Date: 1914-1915 19140903 19150729
- Field Book
Catalogue of bird collection of Ira N. Gaberielson, book II
- Date: 1934-1945 19340629 19450105
- Creator: Gabrielson, Ira Noel, 1889-1977
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 17-004, National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Curatorial Records, 1947-1986
- Date: 1947 1947-1986
- Creator: National Museum of Natural History. Department of Invertebrate Zoology
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 90-052, Colonial Waterbird Society, Records, 1981-1988
- Date: 1981 1981-1988
- Creator: Colonial Waterbird Society
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives